I gather the point was to produce marketing information referencing, as an authority, this so-called peer reviewed medical journal. It does make me question 2 things, though. Who inside Merck is in charge of corporate responsibility, and who in the regulatory agencies is watching out for false or misleading advertising?
Any time a significant service is presented to the consumer as free of cost, it likely is costing something and someone somewhere else. The trick is to find that somewhere else and decide if you’re OK with that. In more than a few cases recently, I don’t think you should be.
We’re starting to see rumblings of the cascade failure I wrote about previously.
Suppliers may go bankrupt because of the bankruptcy filings above. Suppliers may hold off on shipping parts without assurances they aren’t going to lose money in the bankruptcy. Either action idles assembly plants, cutting off the cash flow the car company needs to emerge from bankruptcy.
Here are some other examples of cascade failures:
And now from the other side of my brain … Frankie Manning, one of the founders of the Lindy Hop style of dance, died last night, a month short of his 95 birthday.
Good bye Frankie. A lot of people are going to miss you.
Today I witnessed an ambulance, all lights flashing, siren and horn blaring, held up at an intersection. Not held up by cross-traffic who didn’t see him, held up by traffic in front of him going the same way. No one even tried to get out of his way. No one! What is wrong with people?
First response, from everyone, is always – Of course they are!
I know. It used to be my response. But is it true?
Is this, perhaps, the death of Generalism in general?
When I studied computers, back in the iron age of computers, the study was called Computer Science.
When we questioned, once, the wisdom of calling the course of study Computer Science, we were told that Physics was once called The Physical Sciences. When, in due course, the study of computers was understood by everyone to be a science, the language would follow and drop the redundant tail.
But is that what has happened? (more…)
I’d been wanting to start a new Blog for a while. But I was stuck on what to call it.
At first, I wanted to call it look both ways. That would make it both a reference to what we tell children, look both ways before you cross the street, and also to my belief that we need to look both to the past and to the future before deciding on the best course of action.
But the domain name was already taken. (more…)